Use the labels in the right column to find what you want. Or you can go thru them one by one, there are only 7350 posts. Searching is done in the search box in upper left corner. I blog on anything to do with stroke.DO NOT DO ANYTHING SUGGESTED HERE AS I AM NOT MEDICALLY TRAINED, YOUR DOCTOR IS, LISTEN TO THEM. BUT I BET THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET YOU 100% RECOVERED.

Deans' stroke musings

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain!Just think of all thetrillions and trillions of neuronsthatDIEeach daybecause there areNOeffective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 438 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.My back ground story is here:http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-background-story_8.html

Monday, January 13, 2014

Drug treatment may be a stroke breakthrough

Aspirin plus fish oil for a hyperacute treatment. This was written about almost 2 years ago and if we had anything other than craptastic stroke associations clinical trials would be completed. You'll have to challenge your doctor if you have an ischemic stroke as to what is the downside to providing this treatment. I'm sure Dr. Bazan can be found by your doctor with a minute amount of google research.http://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf/2012/02/drug_treatment_may_be_a_stroke.html

Thursday, February 02, 2012

Led by Louisiana State University neurologist Dr. Nicolas Bazan, a
team of researchers from several institutions has claimed a potential
breakthrough in drug treatment to prevent long-term brain damage in
those who suffer certain strokes. Bazan directed a study that, using
laboratory rats, administered aspirin and an omega-3 essential fatty
acid to yield a new protective molecule that can mitigate damage to
cells around the area of an ischemic stroke. Ischemic stroke occurs when
an arterial blockage denies oxygenated blood to parts of the brain, as
opposed to hemorrhagic stroke, which occurs when a vessel bursts inside
the brain.

Daniel ErathLouisiana State University neurologist Dr. Nicolas Bazan

The results, Bazan said, portend a “novel approach for pharmaceutical intervention.”
Stroke
is the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States and the
leading cause of newly acquired disability in adulthood. Bazan presented
his findings Thursday at the International Stroke Conference, which
concludes Friday at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New
Orleans.
The study, which was financed by a National Institutes of
Health grant, was designed to analyze benefits of neuroprotective
agents — long a focus of Bazan’s career — that can help prevent
irreversible damage in the stroke-affected area. There is considerable
research interest internationally in neuroprotectors as an additional
therapy beyond the more developed, widely used thrombolytic therapy or
drugs that break up and dissolve the clot itself.
Bazan’s study
relied in part on his previous research on the role of omega-3 essential
fatty acids in neuroprotection. In the latest discovery, Bazan said the
team discovered that aspirin and the omega-3 acid DHA (docosahexaenoic
acid) yield in the brain a neuroprotective molecule. Bazan said the
synthesis results from how aspirin, a common anti-inflammatory agent,
acts on a certain enzyme protein that he described as “evil and angel”
in brain chemistry.
In the study with rats, Bazan’s team
chemically generated that new molecule outside of the brain. Then, the
animal subjects were anesthetized and induced with a middle cerebral
artery blockage for two hours. In humans, the middle cerebral artery is
the largest artery in the brain and the most commonly affected by
stroke. Because it affects such a large portion of the brain, MCA stroke
can affect many physical abilities and cognitive functions.

The
research team treated two groups of rats with the synthetic molecules
one hour after the stroke period ended. One group got a sodium salt form
of the treatment, the second a methyl-ester form. A third control group
received saline. The rats who received the neuroprotector
treatment displayed significantly less damage than the saline group,
ranging from 44 percent to 81 percent fewer lesions in various parts of
the brain. They also demonstrated lower water volume, a sign of less
damage following ischemic stroke. In both measures, the methyl-ether
results outpaced sodium salt results.

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